Cruz's One Year Photo Session!

I have been going to Raye Law Photography since I had Maddox, she is just wonderful! We drive to Fort Smith every time we have a big occasion we want to remember. Last week we went down for Cruz's One year photos. He will be 1 on Tuesday!!! I am also planning on having her do my Christmas Cards for me as well!! CLICK HERE to go check out a sneak peek!!!!

Winter Dreams Sneak Peeks...

As many of you know, I am super busy planning a huge fundraiser for the Junior League of NWA, Winter Dreams Tour of Homes. Its just around the corner, December 6th!
Kirsten Blowers, the awesome girl who did my gameroom, is working hard helping her mom get her house ready for the tour. It is going to be spectacular. And each week on Kirstens blog she is posting a sneak peek at her moms house. I want you all to go check it out. It is so original and just amazing. I can't wait to see it in person!
Here is a link to her blog...scroll down and make sure you look at both posts so far!: http://kirstenblowersinteriordesign.blogspot.com/

Winter Dreams Paints the Horse!

As you guys know if you read my blog, I am chairing a fundraiser for the Junior League of NWA called Winter Dreams Tour of Homes. Winter Dreams will have 11 homes featured around NWA that you can buy tickets to tour. They are going to be beautifully decorated by each homeowner. It is about one month from today...December 6th to be exact. Lots of work has been done, but one of the most fun things so far was painting the horse at the Northwest Arkansas Florist.

Everyone who lives in this area KNOWS this horse....it gets repainted every month to advertise different events. We painted it BRIGHT green, with black and red....thanks to all the girls who came out and helped...we really did have fun...what do you think..did it turn out cute or what!!?

Just an FYI if you live around here...tickets are $20 and the money helps to support our community work...I can get you a ticket if you are interested!

Halloween Weekend Pictures!

Holidays around here are never celebrated just one day...you have to drag the festivities out as long as possible! So my Halloween fun started on Thursday night with an awesome Girls Night Out! We all went to Las Fajitas to enjoy some Mexican food. We had so much fun there that we ended up at the most random place ever..."Boomers" for some dancing! It was the most fun I've had in a long time. Lots of laughing! Love my friends! We have the best times together!!

Here we are at Las Fajitas!


Rachel and I!

Me and my bestie, Amber!

Here we are outstide the restaurant and ready to head for some dancing!! Fun times!!
Our neighborhood always does lots of fun stuff for Halloween. So Friday night we met our friends, Chris and Marcy, and their two boys at the club for dinner. They had haunted houses set up so the kids played in those for a while (minus Maddox, he was too scared!). And then we took them on a haunted hay ride through the golf course. It sounded like a good idea at the time, but I may have made a mistake taking a 2 year old. Maddox buried his head in my lap the entire time! Wooops!!!

Cruz and I before the hayride!

The family hay ride picture:)

Kristian, Maddox, and Nikolaus on the hay ride Earlier in the week we carved pumpkins with my friend Amber and her 3 kiddos! Here are pics from that night:

Our cute pumpkins:

Here is Maddox and the Hutchinson kids after carving pumpkins!

For Halloween, Maddox was a Banana, Cruz was a Monkey. They had a blast trick or treating! Maddox was so excited to get candy and Cruz kept clapping his hands! They were SOOOOO cute!

Here is Maddox after getting a piece of candy!

Here are the boys...sorry for the blurry picture..it so hard to get a shot of them! they are both constantly on the move!My lil monkey...with pink eye:(Cruz got to eat one piece of candy....a 3 Musketeer...it was a huge hit! He wanted lots more!!Maddox could have cared less about the actual candy. His first pick out of the candy he collected was pretzels! Followed by a popcorn ball...weird! I always want the sugar!

Hope everyone else had a great Halloween! Thanks for stopping by!

Want to see something cute?

Then run over to Rachel's blog and check out the FABULOUS Witch's Brew party she had for all of our kids! I am behind on the blog...so I'm just gonna link you straight to the source!

Thanks Rachel...Maddox had a BLAST!!!!

Say Ba-Bye!!!!!

The thing I hate the most about my body are my awefully ugly viens....all thanks to pregnancy. They bulge out of my legs, make me look bruised...they are just plain ugly!! But tomorrow, they will be no more....

I am heading into surgery to have those suckers taken out! I am getting injections to make the spider ones go away. My legs are gonna look good again. I can't wait....here is the before (sorry for the bad picture...I just took it real quick!)

My legs will be wrapped up for two days, but I'll post an after when I can ....WOOO HOOO! I have been looking forward to this since I had Cruz!!

Confessions of a Stay at Home Mom

I've had a hard time finding something to blog about the past few days. Life around here has not exactly been glamorous....my kids are both in terrible "phases". Having two boys so young is really taking a toll on me lately.

Cruz is teething...which means, he follows me around constantly crying, only stopping if I will pick him up.

Maddox is in full swing of the TERRIBLE TWO'S!!!! Whining, tantrums, crying, whining, crying, more tantrums, 'mommy, mommy, mommy'...

This combination at the same time is so hard.

The only peace I get is at this very moment, when they are both napping!

But soon, I'll here "Mommy!!!" and it'll be time to get them up....and then it all starts again.

I love my babies, I thank God for my husband and parents who are so willing to always help out. But life....its hard! Anyone who says being a stay at home mom is not a 'real' job...ha! I go crazier now than when I taught a class of 30 junior high kids!

But, I do love my babies.....and somehow....in all the craziness....I do love being a stay at home mom!